State v. Sands

Defendant; at the December term, 1879, of the Johnson county criminal court, was tried upon an indictment charging him with abandoning and failing to provide for and maintain his wife from the 18th day of July to the 16th day of December, 1878. He was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of $325 and imprisonment in the county jail for 143 days.

The indictment is based on the 34th section, 1 Wagner’s Statutes, 497, which provides that “ every husband shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, who shall, without good cause, abandon his wife, and fail, neglect or refuse to maintain and…